. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Read Mr. Rummens' Letter About Itâ R. M. WADE & CO. Ore. Pomeroy Oct. 16. 1914 GentlemenâLast year I was using â {name furntshed on request) grain drill to seed ground and white working along the right-of-way theteam becime frightened andran across the tracks breaking up the drill badly. I set the broken drill aside and purchased a New Pe- oria Disc Shoe Drill from your Pomeroy, Wash agent, Mr J. R. Stevenson, taking it out and starting to work again where I left off with the other drill. I wish to sny that 1 was per- fectly astonished at the


. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Read Mr. Rummens' Letter About Itâ R. M. WADE & CO. Ore. Pomeroy Oct. 16. 1914 GentlemenâLast year I was using â {name furntshed on request) grain drill to seed ground and white working along the right-of-way theteam becime frightened andran across the tracks breaking up the drill badly. I set the broken drill aside and purchased a New Pe- oria Disc Shoe Drill from your Pomeroy, Wash agent, Mr J. R. Stevenson, taking it out and starting to work again where I left off with the other drill. I wish to sny that 1 was per- fectly astonished at the results. When the grain was grown, the point where 1 had begun with the Peoria could be easily marked with the eye. The grain sowed by the Peoria was about four inches higher and at least fifteen to twenty percent thicker. To say that I was highly pleased with the results is stating it mildly. Very truly yours, W. J. RUMMENS For SI years we have sold farm im- plements in the Northwest and our line suits local con- ditions best. 'POKTIiArlV. 329 HAWTHORNE AVE. or THE COFFMAN CO.* 910-928 Howard Street Spokane, We occu py an entire block in Port- land on Hawthorne Avenue where we carry an enormous stock. The Keeping Quality of Apples By Charles L. Hamilton, North Yakima, Washington THE apple growers of the Northwest have been gradually improving their methods of orchard opera- tion; that is, they have in a large measure come to the point where a considerable majority appreciate the necessity for thorough and scientific work in the production of their crops. They have come to realize that fine apples, like any other superior product, require for their production the appli- cation of certain now more or less well defined rules and systems for irrigation, cultivation, pruning, spraying and thin- ning, these regulations only varying slightly to meet the peculiar neetls of various local conditions, until at the present time they are able to produce from their orchards good


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